Confessions of a rogue public servant

by Eze Eluchie

Will someone tell this character that what he is referring to as ‘huge mistakes in his Presidency’ regarding Obasanjo’s misrule of Nigeria are actually criminal acts punishable under Nigerian laws and the legal codes of most countries.

These acts:

1. Stealing government funds to fund the ‘purchase’ of government assets for personal use

2. The Tenure elongation fiasco

3. The Obasanjo Library scam, and

4. The mass killings against the peoples of Odi (Bayelsa State) and Zaki Biam (Benue State)

were crimes Nigerians and the international community had long known Obasanjo and his cohorts committed during the ‘Reign of Evil’. The only laughable part of Nasir el-Rufai’s write up is where he says himself and some lackeys of Obasanjo had ‘resisted’/’opposed’ the criminal activities of Nigeria’s former maximum ruler.

It is at times like this that one really appreciates the criminal acumen inherent in a man who ensures that he is succeeded in office by a character who lacks focus or courage.

Two thoughts that readily come to mind:

1. Why is former boss of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, so bereft of courage that he cannot muster the guts to confess as el-Rufai is thankfully doing? and

2. If she were not the Minister for Finance in the present government, will Okonjo-Iweala not be making the accusations that Oby Ezekwesili is making against the Yar’Adua/Jonathan regime?

Only a restructured and renegotiated polity will cause a cease of these high level criminality. 

http://www.punchng.com/news/obasanjo-made-four-huge-mistakes-in-office-el-rufai/

Picture: Nasir el-Rufai

Patching the unpatchable

by Eze Eluchie

The so-called merger agreement between the ACN, ANPP, APGA and CPC is not only fraudulent, it also misses the point.

The signatory on behalf of APGA is suspect. The offer of the alliance as a ‘recipe for peace and prosperity’ is disingenuous. The alliance is a recycling of the old – putting old wine into recycled (not new) bottle

The problem with Nigeria is structural and fundamental.

Any hopes based on the present fraudulent 1999 Constitution will only prolong the misery of the populace and allow a new breed of characters (who have thus far in the governance of the various States under their control, have not shown much difference from the PDP which administers the rot at the federal level) to continue to milk and rob the people.

The APC alliance is all about access to the spoils of battle and has absolutely nothing to do with the people, their welfare, prosperity or wellbeing!

Let’s restructure and renegotiate the contraption whilst there is yet time!

Back to the trenches! 



Picture: Purported APC 'merger agreement'

Tell-tale signals

by Eze Eluchie

News that the several dead bodies found floating along the Ezzu River, in Nigeria's southeastern State of Anambra, are members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) who had earlier been arrested by a combined team of the Nigerian army, police and State Security Service men is most shocking, quite worrisome and indicative of dire situations onwards!

Officials of the Nigerian contraption must be held responsible for these and the several systemic mass killings which is unfortunately beginning to characterize the Nigerian polity.

Time for constructive reconstruction and renegotiation of our contraption is fast ebbing away!

Picture: Members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) murdered by Nigeria security agents.